Thursday, June 12, 2014

reddit, the poorly organized and nearly unsearchable appendix of The Internet...but Yeah me!

Ah, reddit, you allusive self-proclaimed front page of the Internet. Instead, I would prolly characterize reddit as the Internet's poorly organized and nearly unsearchable appendix. However, there is something addictive about its format and engagement. You may have the intent to only check reddit out for 5 minutes, but that 5 minutes can easily turn to 2 hours. I enjoy redditting from time to time. Not often enough to really know how to game the system for karma, but often enough.

The other day, I finally was able to do something amazing. A link that I posted actually made it to the "front page" and even the top spot of a major subreddit called /r/funny. I also made it all the way up to page two of the reddit home page with default categories. If you don't know what that means, don't worry about it. It's just something that is hard to do on reddit. The Holy Grail is to actually make it to the "front page" of reddit's home page with default categories. I missed that mark ever so slightly. Oh well. What does this matter? Well, you know, Internet points! Anyway, I'm just here chronicling this achievement in my journal.